Add References with Search
If you have been using VS2010 for any significant amount of time, you surely came across the awkward, slow and hard to use Add Reference dialog. Despite some (apparent) improvements over the VS2008 behavior, in its current form it's even LESS usable than before. A brief non-exhaustive summary of the typical grief with this dialog is:
- Scrolling a list of *hundreds* of entries? (300+ typically)
-
No partial matching when typing: yes, you can type in the
list to get to the desired entry, but the matching is
performed in an exact manner, from the beginning of the
assembly name. So, to get to the (say)
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Settings" assembly, you actually
have to type the first two segments in their entirety
before starting to type "Settings"....
